Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 81 81
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,068 1,725 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 3.51% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 3.96% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 812 1,369
10th Percentile £45,602 £51,025 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £73,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +13.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £85,420
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 1,788 £75,000 - 2,336
UK excluding London -29 1,134 £67,500 -3.57% 1,137
Work from Home -21 844 £67,500 -3.57% 1,112
London -16 785 £85,000 +6.25% 1,480
North of England -41 363 £75,000 +7.14% 332
South East +35 322 £65,000 -7.14% 213
North West -59 194 £78,750 +12.50% 180
South West -19 140 £63,750 +6.25% 119
Midlands -56 107 £69,310 -0.99% 124
North East +16 93 £65,000 +49.86% 50
West Midlands -36 77 £80,000 +14.29% 74
Yorkshire -6 76 £69,310 -2.38% 105
Northern Ireland -20 70 £60,000 +33.33% 89
Wales -21 66 £62,500 +20.19% 20
East of England -45 37 £60,100 -3.84% 94
Scotland -52 33 £60,000 -23.23% 151
East Midlands -54 30 £65,000 - 49
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.08%) Confluence
2 31 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 19 (0.92%) Apache
4 15 (0.73%) CMS
5 13 (0.63%) IIS
6 11 (0.53%) Camunda
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) JBoss
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.34%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) DNN
12 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.097%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (51.16%) AWS
2 874 (42.26%) Azure
3 322 (15.57%) GCP
4 266 (12.86%) Serverless
5 260 (12.57%) GitHub
6 195 (9.43%) SaaS
7 180 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 150 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (5.85%) Amazon S3
10 121 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 103 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
12 94 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 89 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
14 76 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
16 64 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (2.85%) Azure AKS
18 50 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 50 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.16%) Broadband
2 21 (1.02%) Network Security
3 13 (0.63%) DMARC
4 12 (0.58%) DNS
4 12 (0.58%) MQTT
5 10 (0.48%) AMQP
5 10 (0.48%) HTTP
6 8 (0.39%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) Internet
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
9 5 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.15%) DHCP
10 3 (0.15%) Firewall
10 3 (0.15%) LTE
10 3 (0.15%) NAS
10 3 (0.15%) SAN
10 3 (0.15%) SSL
11 1 (0.048%) Wireless
11 1 (0.048%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (14.94%) MongoDB
2 226 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (9.72%) NoSQL
4 164 (7.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 153 (7.40%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (5.32%) MySQL
6 110 (5.32%) SQL Server
7 92 (4.45%) Relational Database
8 66 (3.19%) Redis
9 59 (2.85%) DynamoDB
10 42 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (1.60%) Big Data
12 18 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 15 (0.73%) Pinecone
13 15 (0.73%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.58%) Db2
14 12 (0.58%) DTS
15 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 289 (13.97%) Git
2 186 (8.99%) GitLab
3 161 (7.79%) Jenkins
4 65 (3.14%) JIRA
5 64 (3.09%) JUnit
5 64 (3.09%) TeamCity
6 53 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 41 (1.98%) Cypress.io
8 37 (1.79%) Mockito
9 36 (1.74%) Maven
10 31 (1.50%) Claude Code
11 26 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (1.16%) Selenium
13 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.82%) Spock
14 14 (0.68%) JMeter
14 14 (0.68%) Postman
15 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.58%) Vite
17 10 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 529 (25.58%) Finance
2 416 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 231 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 194 (9.38%) Banking
5 162 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 155 (7.50%) Law
7 143 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (6.00%) Retail
9 87 (4.21%) Legal
10 80 (3.87%) Financial Institution
11 60 (2.90%) Marketing
12 59 (2.85%) Back Office
13 42 (2.03%) Aerospace
14 35 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.45%) Games
16 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.87%) Advertising
18 17 (0.82%) Front Office
19 12 (0.58%) Aviation
20 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 758 (36.65%) Developer
2 498 (24.08%) Senior
3 372 (17.99%) Software Engineer
4 356 (17.21%) Lead
5 319 (15.43%) Architect
6 198 (9.57%) .NET Developer
7 188 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 163 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 161 (7.79%) Java Developer
10 133 (6.43%) Java Engineer
11 127 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 125 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 110 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
14 102 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
15 79 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 79 (3.82%) Software Developer
16 72 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.43%) Lead Developer
18 66 (3.19%) Technical Leader
19 59 (2.85%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (25.73%) .NET
2 450 (21.76%) React
3 430 (20.79%) Node.js
4 387 (18.71%) Terraform
5 373 (18.04%) Spring
6 338 (16.34%) Spring Boot
7 308 (14.89%) RESTful
8 286 (13.83%) REST
9 279 (13.49%) Kafka
10 239 (11.56%) ASP.NET
11 227 (10.98%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.49%) .NET Core
13 208 (10.06%) Vue
14 194 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
15 121 (5.85%) Blazor
16 101 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
17 93 (4.50%) HTML
18 89 (4.30%) CSS
19 86 (4.16%) .NET Framework
19 86 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 658 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 374 (18.09%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 112 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 55 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.51%) AI Agents
9 48 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
10 47 (2.27%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.98%) e-Learning
11 41 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
13 24 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
14 22 (1.06%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.97%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.97%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.87%) Linux
2 48 (2.32%) Windows
3 28 (1.35%) CentOS
3 28 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.97%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.39%) Android
6 8 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Debian
7 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,104 (53.38%) CI/CD
2 992 (47.97%) Agile
3 741 (35.83%) Software Engineering
4 724 (35.01%) DevOps
5 567 (27.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 537 (25.97%) Mentoring
7 475 (22.97%) Event-Driven
8 449 (21.71%) AI
9 435 (21.03%) Test Automation
10 419 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 415 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 391 (18.91%) Containerisation
13 374 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
14 311 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
15 294 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 287 (13.88%) Scrum
17 251 (12.14%) Architectural Patterns
18 236 (11.41%) TDD
19 235 (11.36%) Observability
20 225 (10.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 733 (35.44%) Java
2 570 (27.56%) C#
3 501 (24.23%) SQL
4 456 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 432 (20.89%) Python
6 400 (19.34%) TypeScript
7 87 (4.21%) Go
8 57 (2.76%) Ruby
9 45 (2.18%) C++
10 38 (1.84%) Bash
11 30 (1.45%) PHP
12 26 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.21%) Bicep
14 24 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.06%) Rust
16 21 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.97%) Scala
18 16 (0.77%) C
18 16 (0.77%) Groovy
19 14 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 328 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 226 (10.93%) SC Cleared
3 171 (8.27%) Degree
4 92 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 82 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 79 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.55%) CISSP
9 31 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.92%) CISM
11 18 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.48%) MBA
14 8 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.39%) PhD
15 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (10.74%) QA
2 95 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.79%) WCAG
4 35 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.35%) GDPR
6 20 (0.97%) NIST
7 19 (0.92%) Data Quality
8 18 (0.87%) NCSC
9 11 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.44%) GRC
11 9 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 572 (27.66%) Docker
2 41 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.15%) KVM
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 633 (30.61%) Kubernetes
2 104 (5.03%) Ansible
2 104 (5.03%) Grafana
3 50 (2.42%) Prometheus
4 27 (1.31%) Argo
4 27 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (1.02%) Puppet
6 16 (0.77%) Kibana
7 9 (0.44%) Cilium
8 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.24%) Podman
10 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.19%) Packer
11 3 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.15%) Rancher
12 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.048%) Consul
12 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.048%) logstash
12 1 (0.048%) MIIS
Vendors
1 335 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.64%) Google
3 73 (3.53%) Oracle
4 45 (2.18%) Splunk
5 42 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.40%) Okta
7 28 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 26 (1.26%) ForgeRock
8 26 (1.26%) IBM
9 24 (1.16%) AppDynamics
10 22 (1.06%) Databricks
11 17 (0.82%) OneLogin
12 14 (0.68%) Adobe
12 14 (0.68%) OpenText
12 14 (0.68%) SAP
13 13 (0.63%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.58%) Mistral
15 11 (0.53%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.53%) ServiceNow